PDF Vulnerability Now Exploitable With No Clicking

Discussion in 'malware problems & news' started by Malcontent, Mar 5, 2009.

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  1. Malcontent

    Malcontent Registered Member

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    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/05/1328244

     
  2. XDD

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    nice :D
     
  3. elapsed

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    As far as I know it was fixed in 9.1
     
  4. Mrkvonic

    Mrkvonic Linux Systems Expert

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    You do need to click, though. You need to open a browser, go to a site, click on the file and download it. It's four steps before it gets to see the Windows Explorer. And it's at least 3 clicks before the file is stored locally.

    And only works for Adobe Reader with Windows ...

    Mrk
     
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